Bursa rhodostoma
Lampasopsis rhodostoma, common name the Wine-mouth frog shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BursaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Bursidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bursidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bursidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Bursa rhodostoma on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
8 occurrences- Miocene75%
- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene13%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
6 formations
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group2
- Cantaure Formation2
- Springvale Formation1
- Moin Formation1
- Brasso Formation1
- Cumana Formation1
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The named rock units Bursa rhodostoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bursa rhodostoma and its relatives
MioceneWhere Bursa rhodostoma and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Bursa chipolana2 sites
- Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus2 sites
- Monoplex ritteri2 sites
- Abertella1 site
- Adrana newcombi1 site
- Alaba chipolana1 site
- Alabina (Caloosalba) boiplex1 site
- Alabina (Caloosalba) turbatrix1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara (Sectiarca) inaequilateralis1 site
- Anomia simplex1 site
- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis nobilis1 site
- Argopecten demiurgus1 site
- Astropectinidae1 site
- Balcis1 site
- Basterotia (Basterotella) miocenica1 site
- Bissidae indet.1 site
- Bittium serenum1 site
- Bursa (Tutufa) pelouatensis1 site
- Calliostoma (Calliostoma) caronianum1 site
- Calyptraea (Trochita) costaria1 site
- Cancellaria1 site
- Cantharus1 site
- Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bursa rhodostoma, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus7
- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad1
Each of the 8 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Bursa rhodostoma
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Shellnut
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBursa through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1835)